A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: Introduction  Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore 2 Co-operative History: Movements and Businesses  Mary Hilson SECTION 1: Origins and Models Introduction to Section 1  Mary Hilson 3 Rochdale and Beyond: Consumer Co-operation in Britain before 1945  Mary Hilson 4 The Belgian Co-operative Model: Elements of Success and Failure  Geert Van Goethem 5 History of Consumer Co-operatives in France: From the Conquest of Consumption by the Masses to the Challenge of Mass Consumption  Simon Lambersens, Amélie Artis, Danièle Demoustier and Alain Mélo 6 Consumer Co-operation in the Nordic Countries, c. 1860–1939  Mary Hilson 7 Canadian and us Catholic Promotion of Co-operatives in Central America and the Caribbean and Their Political Implications  Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens and Catherine C LeGrand 8 African American Consumer Co-operation: History and Global Connections  Jessica Gordon Nembhard 9 A Co-operative Take on Free Trade: International Ambitions and Regional Initiatives in International Co-operative Trade  Katarina Friberg SECTION 2: Challenges to Democracy – State Intervention Introduction to Section 2  Silke Neunsinger 10 German Co-operatives: Rise and Fall 1850–1970  Michael Prinz 11 The Rise and Fall of Austria’s Consumer Co-operatives  Johann Brazda, Florian Jagschitz, Siegfried Rom and Robert Schediwy 12 Consumer Co-operatives in Portugal: Debates and Experiences from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century  Dulce Freire and Joana Dias Pereira 13 Consumer Co-operatives in Spain 1860–2010  Francisco J Medina-Albaladejo 14 The Experience of the Consumer Co-operative Movement in Korea: Its Break off and Rebirth  Kim Hyung-mi 15 Consumer Co-operatives in the People’s Republic of China – A Development Path Shaped by Its Economic and Political History  Mary Ip and Kay-Wah Chan SECTION 3: Challenges to Business Introduction to Section 3  Greg Patmore 16 Managing Consumer Co-operatives: A Historical Perspective  Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave 17 Patterns, Limitations and Associations: The Consumer Co-operative Movement in Canada, 1828 to the Present  Ian MacPherson 18 Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and New Zealand  Nikola Balnave and Greg Patmore 19 Consumer Co-operation in a Changing Economy: The Case of Argentina  Mirta Vuotto, Griselda Verbeke and María Eugenia Castelao Caruana 20 Fighting Monopoly and Enhancing Democracy: A Historical Overview of us Consumer Co-operatives  Greg Patmore 21 Affluence and Decline: Consumer Co-operatives in Postwar Britain  Corrado Secchi SECTION 4 Consolidation Introduction to Section 4  Mary Hilson 22 Going Global. The Rise of the cws as an International Commercial and Political Actor, 1863–1950: Scoping an Agenda for Further Research  Anthony Webster, John F Wilson and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh 23 Consumer Co-operation in Italy: A Network of Co-operatives with a Multi-class Constituency  Patrizia Battilani 24 Consumer Societies in Switzerland: From Local Self-help Organizations to a Single National Co-operative  Bernard Degen 25 From Commercial Trickery to Social Responsibility: Marketing in the Swedish Co-operative Movement in the Early Twentieth Century  Pernilla Jonsson 26 Building Consumer Democracy: The Trajectory of Consumer Co-operation in Japan  Akira Kurimoto 27 Against the Tide: Understanding the Commercial Success of Nordic Consumer Co-operatives, 1950–2010  Espen Ekberg Conclusion 28 Conclusion: Consumer Co-operatives Past, Present and Future  Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore Bibliography Index